Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an African American woman wearing galoshes walking behind a house in one of the poorer sections of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter released by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated April 25, 1965. Sections of interest include a report of an injunction against a Sunflower County...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon has six sections. The first has the cartoon caption, "Evolution of the ultimate weapon." The other five sections are numbered and show a mace, a bow and arrow, a...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Voter registration form distributed by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), made up of two sections. The first section consists of 9 questions for the registrant to...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is stretched between two sections of oil pipeline which do not meet. His hands are at the opening of one pipe, and his feet are at the opening of the other. He...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is at his desk, on which are a large ruler labeled "Expected revenues" and a large roll of paper labeled "Appropriations bill." Treen, sweating, is...

From the Map Collection. A map comprised of several sections. The center panel shows the the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and parts of South America, Mexico, and the U.S. Additional panels illustrates the Baye de Panama, St. Augustini,...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Mississippi Summer Project staff to summer project workers assigned to work in voter registration. Lists supplies and materials...

From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The index is arranged by subject and includes titles and some publishing information for articles, pamphlets, reports, and other documents within the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...